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Afghanistan
US coalition says it kills 11 Taliban in operation
2008-12-27
The U.S. coalition said Friday its forces killed 11 Taliban militants, including the leader of a bomb-making cell, during an operation in southern Afghanistan. The raid in Kandahar province on Thursday targeted a bomb-maker responsible for roadside bomb attacks that killed NATO soldiers, a coalition statement said.

Militants barricaded themselves inside a home during the raid and opened fire on the coalition forces.
"You'll never take us alive, infidels!" [BLAM! BLAM!]
After giving time to allow women and children to leave, ...
"Captain, sir, we got the wimmins and the kiddies out of the way."
"Very good, sergeant, now let's grant those hard boyz their wish."
"You bet, Captain."
... the coalition forces fired on the militants with guns and grenades, it said.
[KA-BOOM!!!]
One woman who remained in the building was wounded in the leg. She was evacuated to a coalition medical facility, it said.

Coalition forces found dozens of land mines, grenades, AK-47s and bomb-making materials in the home, the coalition said.

Overnight raids by elite Special Forces troops have been a sore point with some Afghans, including President Hamid Karzai. Afghan officials say camp-followers innocent civilians are often wounded or killed during the risky operations.

Karzai last week attended a memorial ceremony for three Afghans killed in an overnight raid in Khost province. Afghan officials said the three were innocent civilians; the U.S. coalition said they were militants or linked to the insurgency.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Him forgot Bush the Genius again... I fear he's slippin... sad.

Could be the back-bacon effect... or more likely Jooooooooooooo mind control rays.
Posted by: .5MT   2008-12-27 18:33  

#7  Easy for you to say Beldar etc. since you're posting from Canada, which does not possess nuclear weapons. Nice try at goading another country into bearing the responsibility for using them.
Posted by: lotp   2008-12-27 16:34  

#6  [On this spot at 15:25, encuhentelf had a vowel movement. Rantburg software has cleaned and disinfected the site of the accident. Have a nice day.]
Posted by: encuhentelf   2008-12-27 15:25  

#5  Yet another smear from Karzai's heroin defense committee, posing as a government.

Enough! I have NEVER supported nation building in the Pashto sections of Afghanistan; ie: the toilet of Central Asia. I would have declared the use of civilian airplanes for mass murder on 9-11,should have been declared as a use of Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Taliban-al-Qaeda's home base should have been nuked to oblivion. The Northern Alliance would have been able to pick up the pieces.

Karzai the Pashto can go to hell.

Posted by: Beldar Creting7411   2008-12-27 12:01  

#4  Done. Took a few minutes to sweep up and bag all those links dropped by our Russian visitor.
Posted by: lotp   2008-12-27 08:15  

#3  Fred, clean-up on aisle 1!
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2008-12-27 07:32  

#2  Wow, I wish we would have killed that many taliban at the compound outside Kandahar.
Posted by: Sonny Ebbeamp1305   2008-12-27 07:12  

#1  
On this site TAawaiggego, a troll from Russia, vomited a huge number of links to uninteresting pages.
Posted by: TAawaiggego   2008-12-27 05:24  

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